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Livermore's founder, Edward Teller, lobbied hard for another ended up in the small coastal town's Emergency unit with a sore chance to play with planetary processes. At the 1998 throat, "super-stiff" neck, pounding headache and ears "ringing International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, the Father of the __ like crazy". Even her teeth hurt. H-bomb presented his Next Big Idea. Having earlier pressed for It was all very nerve-wracking. Smart contacted a Transport detonating nuclear bombs to carve new harbours out of American —_— Canada investigator who had noticed the jet trails too and was coastlines, Teller now called for reflective chemicals to be spread —_ convinced it was normal contrail activity. Why he took special like mirror-shades over the Earth. Or at least over allies who notice of normal contrails was not explained. But the TC official could agree in secret for this unprecedented geoengineering told Smart he hoped the Canadian equivalent of the FAA would experiment to be carried out over their unsuspecting constituents. be notified of any military exercises taking place. In a draft report leaked to me soon after it appeared for peer On June 17, 2001, after photographing massive plumes over review in May 2000, an expert panel chosen among 3,000 atmos- — Gibsons, Smart checked with aviation authorities and found that pheric scientists looked at Caldeira's computer simulations and no airline flight plans had been filed for that airspace at that time. agreed that Teller's scheme might work. But the IPCC warned Official weather data showed that when her photos of multiple against unpredictable upsets of the atmosphere, as well as against white plumes were taken, the 30 per cent humidity at 30,000 and angry populaces reacting to "the associated whitening of the visu- 35,000 feet was less than half that needed for contrails to form. al appearance of the sky". As NOAA meteorologist Thomas Schlatter explains, for even Caldeira was so concerned he went public, warning that deflect- —_ short-lived condensation trails to form, "we're talking tempera- ing sunlight would further cool the stratosphere, concentrating icy _ tures lower than about minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, and humidity clouds of ozone-gobbling CFCs that could destroy Earth's solar at jet altitudes of 70 per cent or more". radiation shield. Smart sent her findings to Transport Canada with a request for Was the sky shield experiment already underway? Deep Sky an explanation of how contrails could form when they couldn't. hinted that it was. "It is my understanding," she wrote, "that the only way to form jet Were the tankers involved in weather modification? Our FAA trails at yesterday's low humidity is to introduce very fine particu- source hesitated before responding. "That approximates what I lates into the atmosphere." was told." Smart's homework hit like hardball. According to the National For the third interview we rephrased our key question. Were Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, the only the tankers repeatedly observed on ATC radars involved in cli- way to form artificial clouds in warm dry air is to introduce mate modification? I caught my breath as Deep Sky confirmed _ enough particulates into the atmosphere to attract and accrete all that this is what he was told was the object of the missions. available moisture into visible vapour. If repeated often enough, Here at last was our "smoking nuke" admission. After years of the resulting rainless haze can lead to drought. "airliner" double-speak, we could now corroborate Deep Sky's Following standard procedure to ignore all evidence contradict- report of military aircraft dispensing reflective materials with an _ ing the official line, Transport Canada's Randy Phillips responded earlier report by a Canadian aviation official. by advising Smart to check out the "urban legends" website ridi- On December 8, 2000, Terry Stewart, the Manager for Planning _culing chemtrails. and Environment at the Victoria International Airport, had broken Col. Walter Washbaugh, Chief of the Congressional Inquiry this story wide open when he responded to a caller's complaint the Division for the Secretary of the Air Force in Washington, DC, previous day of Xs, circles and grids being woven over the British also calls chemtrails "a hoax". In an April 20, 2001, letter to a US Columbia capitol. Leaving a message on an answering machine _ senator, Washbaugh blamed the increased number of contrails on tape, later heard by more than 15 million radio listeners, the pub- _ "significant civil aviation growth in the past decade". lic servant explained: "It's a military exercise, US and Canadian He was right. A National Science Foundation study has found Air Force exercise that's going on. They wouldn't give me any that, in certain heavy traffic corridors, artificial cloud cover has specifics on it." Stewart added that he found the inci- dent—one of hundreds reported over Canada's west coast since the fall of 1998— "very odd". Tasked with defending Canadian airspace in the region, CFB Comox chose instead to defend a classified collaboration. "No mili- tary operation is taking place," the base information officer tersely told me when I called for details. But Stewart later told the Vancouver Courier that his information had come directly from CFB Comox. CONTRAILS vs CHEMTRAILS Across the strait from the island air base, a concerned mother of three children was noticing that people in Gibsons were coming down with ailments that coincided with constant chemtrail activity. Suzanne Smart's husband contracted asthma; their children — . were always sniffling and coughing. Smart Chemtrail grid pattern over Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 2000. ended up in the small coastal town's Emergency unit with a sore throat, "super-stiff" neck, pounding headache and ears "ringing like crazy". Even her teeth hurt. It was all very nerve-wracking. Smart contacted a Transport Canada investigator who had noticed the jet trails too and was convinced it was normal contrail activity. Why he took special notice of normal contrails was not explained. But the TC official told Smart he hoped the Canadian equivalent of the FAA would be notified of any military exercises taking place. On June 17, 2001, after photographing massive plumes over Gibsons, Smart checked with aviation authorities and found that no airline flight plans had been filed for that airspace at that time. Official weather data showed that when her photos of multiple white plumes were taken, the 30 per cent humidity at 30,000 and 35,000 feet was less than half that needed for contrails to form. As NOAA meteorologist Thomas Schlatter explains, for even short-lived condensation trails to form, "we're talking tempera- tures lower than about minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, and humidity at jet altitudes of 70 per cent or more". Smart sent her findings to Transport Canada with a request for an explanation of how contrails could form when they couldn't. "It is my understanding," she wrote, "that the only way to form jet trails at yesterday's low humidity is to introduce very fine particu- lates into the atmosphere." Smart's homework hit like hardball. According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, the only way to form artificial clouds in warm dry air is to introduce enough particulates into the atmosphere to attract and accrete all available moisture into visible vapour. If repeated often enough, the resulting rainless haze can lead to drought. Following standard procedure to ignore all evidence contradict- ing the official line, Transport Canada's Randy Phillips responded by advising Smart to check out the "urban legends" website ridi- culing chemtrails. Col. Walter Washbaugh, Chief of the Congressional Inquiry Division for the Secretary of the Air Force in Washington, DC, also calls chemtrails "a hoax". In an April 20, 2001, letter to a US senator, Washbaugh blamed the increased number of contrails on "significant civil aviation growth in the past decade". He was right. A National Science Foundation study has found that, in certain heavy traffic corridors, artificial cloud cover has NEXUS = 15 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2001 www. nexusmagazine.com